(1) Ða ic ða ðis eall gemunde, When I recollected all this, I ða wundrade ic swiðe wondered very much that of all swiðe ðara godena wiotona ðe the scholars that long were giu wæron giond Angelcynn, throughout England and had ond ða bec ealla be fullan learnt all the books in full, geliornod hæfdon, ðæt hie hiora none at all wished to turn them ða nænne dæl noldon on hiera into their own tongue. But in agen geðiode wendan. Ac ic a short space I answered myself, ða sona eft me selfum saying: “They did not andwyrde, ond cwæþ: “Hie ne believe that men should ever be wendon ðætte æfre menn so reckless, and learning so fall sceolden swæ reccelease weorðan, away; through that desire they ond sio lar swæ oðfeallan; for held back from it, and wished ðære wilnunga hie hit forleton that the more wisdom there ond woldon ðaet her ðy mara might be in the land the more wisdom on londe wære ðy we tongues we might know.” ma geðeoda cuðon?” ALFRED, _Pastoral Care_, 900 (2) Thæt witen ge wel alle, This know ye well all, that we thæt we willen and unnen, thæt will and grant that which our thæt ure rædesmen alle other councillors, all or the greater the moare dæl of heom, thæt art of them, who are chosen by beoth ichosen thurg us and us and by the land’s people in thurg thæt loandes folk on ure our kingdom, have done and kuneriche, habbeth idon and shall do, to the honour of God schullen don in the worthnesse and in allegiance to us, for the of Gode and on ure treowthe good of the land, by the ordinance for the frem of the loande of the aforesaid councillors, thurg the besigte of than be stedfast and permanent toforeniseide redesmen, beo stedefaest in all things, time without end, and ilestinde in alle and we command all our true thinge a buten ænde, and we men by the faith that they owe hoaten alle ure treowe in the us, that they stedfastly hold, treowthe, thæt heo us ogen, and swear to hold and defend thæt heo stedefaestliche the regulations. healden and swerien to healdan and to werien the isetnesses. _Proclamation of Henry III_, 1258